How to Train Your Dog to Leave It

Hello Lauren, I do suggest having pup sit or lie down while riding. Even though pup likes looking out the window - it sounds like pup is not safe doing so, and it also increases arousal, which contributes to the car aggression. Practice having pup perform a sit or down stay in a stationary car. Practice putting the car harness on and staying in the car, with the car off. Once pup can do that, check out the article linked below and the Overcoming fear method. You want to reward things that encourage calmness and not excitement or reactivity. The video below showed how to introduce the harness in one session for the purpose of time and taping. Go at your dog's pace. Some dogs will do this in one session, and others will need the training broken up into several sessions, going at pup's own pace. Harness introduction how to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn5b8u1YS_g&feature=emb_title Overcoming Fear Method https://wagwalking.com/training/like-car-rides Have a friend drive you around while you practice enforcing a calm Sit or Down with the car harness on during short rides, to help with calmness. Best of luck training, Caitlin Crittenden

Hello Kelly, Check out the videos linked below for teaching calmness around cats. Mild cat issue - teaching impulse control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWF2Ohik8iM Moderate cat issue - teaching impulse control using corrections and rewards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dPIC3Jtn0E Work on impulse control in general with pup, by teaching things that increase impulse control and calmness - such as a long Place command around lots of distractions. Practicing the command until you get to the point where pup will stay on Place while you are working with a cat in the same room. I recommend also back tying pup while they are on place - safely connecting a long leash attached to pup to something near the Place just in case pup were to try to get off Place before you could intervene. Make sure what the leash is secured to, the leash itself, and pup's collar or harness are secure and not likely to break or slip off. This keeps kitty safe while practicing and reinforces to pup that they can't get off the Place. The leash should be long enough that pup doesn't feel the leash while they are obediently staying on the Place because it has some slack in the leash. You want pup to learn to stay due to obedience and self-control, and the leash just be back up for safety. Place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omg5DVPWIWo Below are some other commands in general you can practice to help pup develop better impulse skill/self-control - impulse control takes practice for a dog to gain the ability to control herself. Down-Stay: https://www.thelabradorsite.com/train-your-labrador-to-lie-down-and-stay/ Leave It: https://wagwalking.com/training/train-a-shih-tzu-puppy-to-not-bite Out - which means leave the room: https://www.petful.com/behaviors/how-to-teach-a-dog-the-out-command/ I would also keep a drag leash on her in general in your home when you are there to supervise to make sure it doesn't get caught on anything, then when you want her to come or move away from something, you can calmly walk up to the end of the leash, step on it, grab it, give you command calmly, then use the leash to enforce the command by reeling pup in to come or moving her where she needs to go if she chooses to disobey - teaching her calmly that obedience isn't optional, to help with listening. Consistency method: https://wagwalking.com/training/train-a-doberman-to-listen-to-you Come: https://wagwalking.com/training/train-a-whippet-to-recall Best of luck training, Caitlin Crittenden